TUC: Scrap pension age rise to limit regional inequalities

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Increases in the state pension age (SPA) will widen the retirement income "postcode divide", according to the TUC.

The trade union criticised the "failure to consider persistent inequalities in life expectancy", and called for the coalition to abandon plans to increase SPA to 67 by 2020. A report from the or...

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